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The Reading Promise

The best part of Alice Ozma’s The Reading Promise is the list of books at the back. Including all the L. Frank Baum, Judy Blume, Ramona (Beverly Cleary), Harry Potter, and Encyclopedia Brown (Sobol) books, most of Charles Dickens, and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe – the list also suggests the following classics:

The Secret Garden

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

James and the Giant Peach

Because of Winn-Dixie

Hoot

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Giver

Winnie-the-Pooh

Island of the Blue Dolphns

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Maniac Magee

Dicey’s Song

The Pigman

Ozma offers seven pages of titles – all read to her by her father as they used nightly reading for father/daughter bonding in a mutual promise to maintain an eight year “streak” of uninterrupted nights of reading. The book is a stretched out and unremarkable memoir, but the list is a nice reference, if you need one.